From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B2F841382F6 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:11:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0AEABE0B3A; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:11:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 104CAE0B2F for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:11:02 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0BqDQA731xV/6eXxEVcgxCBMsswBAICgTw9EAEBAQEBAQGBCkEFg1wBAQEBAgE6HCgLCxgJExIPBSU3iCQIriOhAAEBAQcCAR+LOoUMFoMBgRYBBJtkgguBO4Y9jViBRSNhgzMiMYJHAQEB X-IPAS-Result: A0BqDQA731xV/6eXxEVcgxCBMsswBAICgTw9EAEBAQEBAQGBCkEFg1wBAQEBAgE6HCgLCxgJExIPBSU3iCQIriOhAAEBAQcCAR+LOoUMFoMBgRYBBJtkgguBO4Y9jViBRSNhgzMiMYJHAQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="246867598" Received: from 69-196-151-167.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.196.151.167]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 06 Jul 2016 12:11:00 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:11:02 -0400 From: waltdnes@waltdnes.org Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 12:11:02 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate USE flags Message-ID: <20160706161101.GA29049@waltdnes.org> References: <1645780.3TDsiAQxU5@peak> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Archives-Salt: fc897109-7feb-4be4-b6d6-3b9149235ba5 X-Archives-Hash: 87baf145b0c1d01730848c5d1988b9e8 > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> Hello list, > >> > >> Can anyone tell me why we have two USE flags for the same thing? > >> Geoloc and geolocation both switch on geolocation but in different > >> packages. Would you believe 4 flags? geolocation/geoip/geoipv2/geoloc On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 11:05:54AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote > Just to add one note, this happens fairly often, and when people > notice we generally fix it. New USE flags pop up all the time, > because new ideas in software come up all the time... [i3][waltdnes][~] grep ":geoi\|:geol" /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc dev-qt/qtwebengine:geolocation - Enable physical position determination via dev-qt/qtpositioning dev-qt/qtwebkit:geolocation - Enable physical position determination via dev-qt/qtpositioning kde-plasma/plasma-workspace:geolocation - Enables dataengine providing location information media-gfx/kphotoalbum:geolocation - Add support for kde-apps/marble net-analyzer/bro:geoip - Enable support for Maxmind's GeoIP library net-analyzer/pmacct:geoipv2 - Add support for GeoIP2 through dev-libs/libmaxminddb net-im/empathy:geoloc - Enable geolocation support through app-misc/geoclue net-irc/inspircd:geoip - Add geoip support for country and city lookup based on IPs net-libs/webkit-gtk:geoloc - Enable geolocation support through app-misc/geoclue www-apache/mod_security:geoip - Configure ModSecurity to query the GeoIP database from MaxMind, provided by dev-libs/geoip. This flag only controls the default configuration, as the GeoIP query code is part of ModSecurity's source code. Maybe they should be consolidated into one global flag, and moved out of use.local.desc into use.desc. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications